I read the story about the Argentinian guy and I’m not seeing how the guy was not treated with dignity and decency. The CBP officer followed the law and followed procedure. The story makes no note of WHY the guy was turned away at the border but he was inadmissible or else he would have been allowed in.
Don’t believe everything you read in these stories. You’re only hearing one side.
no food, for starters? Shouldn’t people be allowed to eat?
Not if it means allowing them out into the airport restaurants. There may have been vending machines and I’d be very surprised if he wasn’t allowed to use them, but he’d have to wait until someone was available to accompany him or to go buy something for him. Or he may have copped an attitude, which doesn’t help. I’m saying that his version of events may have left out the fact that someone offered to get him a burger if what he really wanted was to go out and get his own.
We don’t know that yet. If he was inadmissible, I’d like to know why. Apparently he doesn’t know why.
ETA: Someone could have easily taken his money and brought him food.
If he was a legal resident (green card holder) how can CBP deny him entry? I can understand if he had a visa to visit but a green card conveys a right of residence in this country.
Perhaps his green card had been flagged, for example if he’d been out of the country for too long, if he’d committed a crime, if he’d missed any required check in or failed to keep the INS informed of his status?
In reading his letter, he doesn’t say his return to his country was wrong, just that he didn’t feel his treatment was good while he was detained.
If you detain people for more than a few hours, you should feed them IMO, regardless of whether or not he was correctly detained. It shouldn’t be a gulag.
^^ – Exactly. And we don’t know if someone offered to get him food and he declined. More likely was that there was no one available to go.
" If he was a legal resident (green card holder) how can CBP deny him entry? I can understand if he had a visa to visit but a green card conveys a right of residence in this country. "
It isn’t always that simple. My husband is a green card holder and was detained when his travel foil was in question. None of the staff had ever seen this type of ( temporary ) documents and had no idea how to process them
As far as being offered food…I was one on a flight from Bermuda and the gate crew were having problems with the tow dolly to bring the aircraft into the gate. We say for hours for something so silly. I am sure that all of the passengers would gladly have walked off the plane from a stair case and into the gate from ground level just to get off that darn plane…no food or drink offered and they didn’t even want passengers to use the toilets 
To the extent there are gaps in TSA/CBP security, we should want more aggressive screening to eliminate those vulnerabilities, not less screening.
We want better screening (greater chance of catching criminals, less hassle for others), which is not necessarily more aggressive screening.
NBC Evening News was discussing the new pat down procedures being implemented in airports by the TSA.
http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/investigation-breaches-us-airports-allowed-weapons-through-n367851
In the report, they reference a 2015 study by Homeland Security whereby agents failed 95% of airport security tests. Reminded me of this thread.
http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/tsa-rolls-out-new-pat-downs-some-travelers-say-they-n729181
Since we had a fair amount of TSA discussion on this thread:
http://www.travelandleisure.com/airlines-airports/trump-funding-tsa-coast-guard-border-wall?xid=NL_JustIn030917
There’s usually a tradeoff between effectiveness and convenience. Thorough pat downs can be very effective, but may feel intrusive.
This happened to him on his flight home yesterday from D.C. after a meeting with Congress members about his initial detainment.
Coincidence? Too many ‘coincidences’ lately. And I love how DHS hides behind not giving out information because of ‘privacy concerns.’
They recognized Debby Wassermam-Shultz at airport, and shared their experience with her.
Unbelievable. But I live in one of those states with noncompliant ID. We’re supposed to have until 2020 or so to get a “Real ID” license but I flew to Florida in January and saw signs on the security sign that you would need them sooner to pass through security there. So it could happen that someone flies out of their home state with no problem and then can’t return home.
I spent 2+ hours at DMV last week and I would suggest that people just travel with their passports until their license is close to expiring and they have to go to DMV anyway.
Yikes. Just checked our passports - expiration in 7 months. Need to renew because many countries require a passport valid for more than 6 months after entering.